Posted on 05/15/2019 4:15:44 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism
"Observe how peaceful we are," Imam Mahmoud Shalash urged. "We do not cause any harm to anybody."
Shalash's mosque, the Islamic Center of Lexington, had contacted Lexington cops and Homeland Security, while claiming to be suffering from Islamophobic threats.
Before long, two cop cars in the Kentucky city known as the Horse Capital of the World were parked outside the mosque to protect the imam and his congregation.
The FBI also got on board.
CAIR widely circulated reports of the threat to what it called, a "house of worship".
"Our nation's leaders must send a clear message challenging the rising Islamophobia that leads to such threats," CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper declared. With the 2016 election still imminent, his news release blamed the "extreme anti-Muslim rhetoric" of Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
Four years later, Imam Mahmoud Shalash is in jail. The imam of the Islamic Center, along with John Sadiqullah, and Abdul Hadi, were charged in a harmful and not especially peaceful murder plot.
What makes this particular murder plot interesting is that it would have been authorized with a fatwa.
Imam Shalash has worn many hats. According to a LinkedIn profile, In addition to running the Islamic Center of Lexington, a man of that name owned a mobile home park and the Bluegrass Extended Stay motel (guest reviews have complained about roaches, stained beds and unfriendliness to service dogs), was a member of the Muslim Students Association (a terror linked Muslim Brotherhood hate group) while working on a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Chicago, and, ironically, considering his current predicament, had worked as a chaplain at “fedral and state prisons”.
It’s unknown which, if any of these businesses, led to the first plot.
In March, Imam Shalash met up with a government informant at the Days Motel which records indicate is owned by Shalash. (Reviews of the motel describe a man named Mohammed, accuse the staff of sexual harassment, and claim that the motel is dangerous and that the mattresses are covered in bugs.)
There the imam told the informant he needed help getting $80,000 from his target. “Do whatever you have to do to get my money back.” That, according to the informant, included breaking the man’s legs.
At a second meeting, Imam Shalash was there along with Sadiqullah, for a murder plot against another man, this time apparently involving a taxi company deal gone bad, across state lines.
“I want him dead,” Sadiqullah said. “If someone could kill him for $10,000, we all four will pay someone $10,000.”
A meeting was then meant to happen at a mosque at which a fatwa would be provided authorizing the murder. That mosque may have been the Islamic Center of Lexington, which is just across the street from the University of Kentucky.
A fatwa, a religious Islamic authorization, for murder would have provided a sharia license for violence.
"This is the month when the heart gets soft," Imam Shalash had claimed during a previous Ramadan. "You read the Quran more often, you remember Allah more often, you tend to come to the mosque more often to pray in congregation."
This Ramadan didn't seem to have softened his heart. But Imam Shalash has never been a kind man.
A decade ago, Asra Q. Nomani described Imam Mahmoud Shalash telling Muslim men to beat their wives.
"This is America," Nomani had protested. "How can you tell men to beat their wives?"
"They should beat them lightly," Imam Shalash had insisted. "It's in the Koran."
And yet, despite incidents like this, the media continued quoting Imam Shalash favorably.
When Sonny Landham called for a Muslim ban while running for a Senate seat in Kentucky, the media turned to Imam Shalash to describe the libertarian actor’s comments as “irresponsible”.
The media constantly turned to Imam Shalash because he’s a major figure in the Muslim settler community in Lexington. Documents list him as an incorporator of the Islamic Society of Central Kentucky. The Society’s site lists him as conducting marriages and funerals. And the Society founded the Lexington Universal Academy whose board appears to contain a number of people with that last name.
That includes one woman described as a CAIR board member and anti-Israel activist who shares a name with a woman who is listed as living at the same address as Imam Shalash.
The Islamic Center of Lexington responded to Imam Shalash’s arrest with a statement claiming that its leadership is “shocked” at the news, that "every American citizen is innocent until proven guilty", and that "Islam is a religion built on peace and tolerance". But how shocked can the Center really be?
News accounts report that Imam Shalash had already pleaded guilty to federal charges of $238,763 in illegal currency transactions back in 2012. Despite that, the Center didn’t cut ties with him.
It didn’t cut ties with him after the wife-beating story.
The Islamic Center is probably hoping once again that this latest Shalash scandal will blow over.
The media has been the Islamic Center’s greatest ally during its previous scandals. When neighbors protested the plans for an Islamic community center, the media took Shalash’s side. Had the media disclosed Shalash’s previous guilty plea and the wife-beating incident, the stories and the hearings might have had a very different outcome.
Instead the media waited for a murder. And nearly got one.
Imam Shalash has spent the better part of two decades trading in vague concerns about Islamophobia while preaching that Islam is a religion of peace.
When Obama ran for office, Imam Shalash claimed that his opponents were "trying to exploit the anti-Islamic sentiment in this country that ties Muslims with terrorists.”
After President Trump’s travel ban, Imam Shalash had insisted, “People come for better opportunities to this country, not to do terroristic actions.” Apparently the two are not mutually exclusive.
After repeatedly exploiting false claims of Islamophobia, the former chaplain is now facing prison.
This case isn’t about Islamic terrorism. But it is about how Islamic law can be leveraged for violent purposes. Islamic violence isn’t just terrorism. It’s violence that is licensed by Islamic authorities.
And that can be as simple as a meeting in a grimy motel or a mosque opposite the University of Kentucky where the religious authority is just a thug who wants to get his money any way he can.
"We want to come up here and show them the real Islam that carries the love and courtesy and tolerance in our faith," Imam Shalash was quoted as saying in news stories.
It took a while, but he finally did.
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The Muslim sharia solution to business disputes is not so very different from "The Mob" solution. The imam of the Lexington Islamic Center has been arrested, w/ two other men, on federal charges related to an alleged murder-for-hire plot. Authorities said 70-year-old Muslim Mahmoud Shalash was charged Thursday, along with 34-year-old Abdul Hadi and 31-year-old John Sadiqullah, on charges of conspiracy and using interstate facility in the commission of a murder-for-hire plot.
According to an affidavit, the three men wanted to have someone kill another man for $10,000 over a business dispute. Apparently the murder plot had a fatwa seal of approval. The informant suggested during one meeting that Sadiqullah and others — who were mad at someone they believed had cheated them in a business deal — meet with Shalash at a mosque on Armstrong Mill Road “in order for Shalash to provide a ‘fatwa’ authorizing the killing.” In a conversation on May 2, Sadiqullah told the confidential source that he and some Afghan associates were to meet “the Sheik” at the mosque that day to discuss the issue.
The source believed the sheik referred to Shalash, according to the affidavit. Shalash had previously claimed to be the victim of Islamophobia. The Islamic Center of Lexington contacted Lexington police and federal Homeland Security Friday morning after receiving an email threat, its imam Mahmoud Shalash said. The email threat, received shortly before noon Friday, said: “I’m going to kill everyone there [sic] you Muslim f**ks. Salabis is coming for you, ” according to a news release from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
“We are aware of the incident and are looking into it to determine the proper course of action,” said David Habich, chief counsel for the FBI in Louisville, in an e-mail to the Herald-Leader newspaper. Looks like they managed to do that.
Dang, the way this dirty Imam hypes their Koran as all peaceful yet clearly it was his book as a license to murder.
Muslim (cough) piety resembles the murderous Antelope, Oregon cult episode.
That whole episode showed the extreme murderous nature of people posing as “pious religionists.”
One Antelope resident observed: “At first, they were seen not as a threat. Then they started buying property. They moved enough people in to get a majority on the town council . . . changed the name of Antelope to Rajneesh. Main Street turned into Bhagwan Boulevard. The commune’s growing influence took over the town’s local council and adopted its own policies, igniting fury in the Antelope residents.”
The madness of the Rajneesh community culminated in 1984 when the cult hatched a plan to win the November 1984 town council elections. They wanted to eliminate Antelope residents’ troubling dissent.
Their tactics included busing in thousands homeless people from New York City, Phoenix, and San Diego to register to vote to insure a Rajneesh majority. (As practiced in Minnesota and Michigan?)
Antelope County authorities sniffed out the plan and refused to register the vagrants.
Then came a vicious bioterror attack that scarred the city.
The pious cult members put salmonella in the salad bars of 10 restaurants in an effort strike sickness and fear among the residents. A total of 700 people became sick, causing the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to come in to stop the damage. The cult’s salmonella plot was the largest bioterror attack in the United States.
The restaurant plot was a test run for the real plan of poisoning the city’s water supply, but the group never carried it out.
The election came and went, without a single Rajneeshee making it onto the commission.
The cult “leader” was ousted from the US, charged with immigratiom fraud, and for arranging phony marriages among the cult members.
Unforunately, evil Muslims have a toehold in the US govt. May they soon depart, willingly....or with our help.
Why should I care if these mutts smack their wives? If they come near mine they’ll be very sorry.
Kentucky Imam ... WTF? Why are they here? Who let them in? Most of them are here LEGALLY. Great.
I am an Islamophobe, you betcha.
Good to hear.
“Why should I care if these mutts smack their wives?”
For a couple of reasons, actually.
1.). We don’t allow wife beating here. By anyone. Having two sets of rules is destructive to a society.
2.) if we allow them this they’ll be demanding more next.
So there’s that.
L
So let the beaten wife file a police report and have the mutt arrested.
Ben Carson? Gentle Ben said something mean about the Muzzies that hurt their feelings?
“So let the beaten wife file a police report and have the mutt arrested.”
Ooookay...try to follow along.
In islam beating ones wife is not a crime. So even if the cops did make an arrest the victim would most likely not file charges even if she reported it in the first place. Would you stand by and do nothing when your non muzzie neighbor beat his wife? Would you refuse to be a witness if he did?
Because that’s their “religion”. The sooner you realize that their belief system is wholly incompatible with Western civilization the better off we will all be.
L
Why are they here? Who let them in?
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The wholesale importation of muslims began during the GHW Bush administration and continued to ramp up through his adopted son, Bubba, and his son George and went into overdrive during the Kenyanesian Usurpation.
They are here to claim America for Allah.
The main difference being that the mob doesn't claim to be a religion of peace nor otherwise hide behind a false identity.
Actually it has grown exponentially SINCE 9/11, after our pathetic limp-wristed 2nd-guessing liberals decided we CAN’T let that massive atrocity color our view of Islam and treat them unkindly, so we rolled over for even these violent thugs.
In America we have criminal statutes against assault. If a woman chooses to file charges, fine. If not, I don’t care. Hope this helps.
Bkmrk
Strange headline, strange times
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